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1 online resource (181 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in The Ser.
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Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in The Ser.
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Part I. Inventing the Peralta Land Grant; 1. Counterfeit Narratives: The Peralta Land Grant Archives and the Forging of the West; 2. Searching for Sofia: Race, Gender, and Authenticity at the 1895 Court of Private Land Claims; 3. Southwest Speculation: Newspaper Coverage of the Peralta Land Grant; Part II. (Re)membering the Peralta Land Grant; 4. Counterfeit Nostalgia: William Atherton DuPuy's Baron of the Colorados (1940); 5. The Baron Is like a Battleground: Samuel Fuller's Baron of Arizona (1950) |
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Epilogue: Forgetting the Peralta Land GrantAcknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
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In Forging Arizona Anita Huizar-Hernández looks back at a bizarre nineteenth-century land grant scheme that tests the limits of how ideas about race, citizenship, and national expansion are forged. During the aftermath of the U.S.-Mexico War and the creation of the current border, a con artist named James Addison Reavis falsified archives around the world to pass his wife off as the heiress to an enormous Spanish land grant so that they could claim ownership of a substantial portion of the newly-acquired Southwestern territories. Drawing from a wide variety of sources including court records, newspapers, fiction, and film, Huizar-Hernández argues that the creation, collapse, and eventual forgetting of Reavis's scam reveal the mechanisms by which narratives, real and imaginary, forge borders. An important addition to extant scholarship on the U.S Southwest border, Forging Arizona recovers a forgotten case that reminds readers that the borders that divide nations, identities, and even true from false are only as stable as the narratives that define them. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-155) and index. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Reavis, James Addison, 1843-1914 -- Claims vs. United States.
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Reavis, James Addison, 1843-1914. |
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United States. Court of Private Land Claims.
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United States. Court of Private Land Claims. |
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Land grants -- Law and legislation -- Arizona.
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Land grants -- Law and legislation. |
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Arizona. |
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Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- Arizona.
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Land tenure -- Law and legislation. |
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Fraud -- Arizona -- History.
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Fraud. |
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History. |
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Swindlers and swindling -- West (U.S.)
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Swindlers and swindling. |
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West (U.S.) -- Race relations -- History.
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Arizona -- History -- To 1912.
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To 1912 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Print version: Huizar-Hernández, Anita. Forging Arizona : A History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, ©2019 9780813598826 |
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0813598850 |
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9780813598857 (electronic book) |
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9780813598826 (cloth) |
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0813598826 |
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9780813598819 (paperback) |
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0813598818 |
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